Security guard jailed 3 years for 2.2kg Ogle cannabis
Security guard Kevin Sandy was caught at Ogle International Airport trying to board a Barbados flight with 2.238kg of cannabis and 1.012kg of cocaine. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison and fined G$6,156,900.
Security guard Kevin Sandy was heading to Barbados via Ogle International
Airport when anti-narcotics ranks stopped him after he was seen acting
suspiciously.[1]The officers searched his bag and uncovered the drugs he was
carrying.[1]He was arrested and, under caution, said someone had told him to
collect the narcotics from a garbage bin and a toilet tank at the airport.[1]The narcotics were concealed in a suitcase bearing his name.[2]
The court case states that on 8 July at Ogle International Airport he had 2.238
kilogrammes of cannabis and 1.012 kilogrammes of cocaine in his possession.[1]Sandy, reported as a 30-year-old resident of Lot 37 East LaPenitence Housing
Scheme, pleaded guilty to the charge before Magistrate Ann McLennan at
Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 2.[1]He was sentenced to three years in jail
for trafficking the cocaine and cannabis.[1]He was also ordered to pay a
$6,156,900 fine, reported as three times the street value of both drugs.[1]
Customs Anti Narcotics Unit agents made the initial arrest at the airport.[2]Ogle International Airport is Guyana’s smaller international airport, which
regional carriers had begun using more heavily about a year earlier.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sentencing date of 10 July 2015 is inferred from the 11 July 2015 Stabroek News report saying Sandy was sentenced 'yesterday'; the arrest date of 8 July 2015 is stated in the court allegation.
The first report described the man as 29 and living at Parfaite Harmonie, while the court report described Kevin Sandy as 30 and living at Lot 37 East LaPenitence Housing Scheme; the report uses the court's identification.
The fine is reported in dollars without specifying the currency; it is recorded as Guyana dollars given the Guyanese court.
No usable event photo could be listed: the Demerara Waves image caption only repeats the headline, and the Stabroek News image is a portrait of the accused.
Timothy Mc Garrell, 24, pleaded guilty at the Vigilance Magistrate's Court on 18 February 2026 to introducing cannabis into the Lusignan Prison hidden under his slipper soles. Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce sentenced him to three years in prison and fined him $30,000.
Nishart Samsundar, 20, was jailed for four years and fined G$1,778,400 on 31 January 2024 after pleading guilty to trafficking and cultivation following a CANU raid on a cannabis farm at Hauraruni Village.
Arrested 2Plants destroyed 5,200Cannabis 1.976 kgPrison 4 years
Latchman Sankar, 39, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined G$49.6 million on 18 January 2024 after admitting possession of more than 55 kg of cannabis. CANU officers had arrested him with Sanya Ramrattan three days earlier at Hubu Parika, seizing 102 parcels valued at about G$20 million.
Guyana police arrested three Venezuelans at Arakaka on 20 October 2023 after finding three pistols, ammunition, 64.7 grams of marijuana and cocaine in a house search. One man pleaded guilty and was jailed for three years for marijuana trafficking plus further terms for cocaine and weapons, while the other two denied the charges.
